Example sentences of "[is] little more [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Macho Man is where my money is — even if he is little more than a heap of flesh and bone . ’ |
| 2 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 3 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
| 4 | In the middle of combat , one is little more than a wave in the sea … a stroke of the brush lost in the painting … |
| 5 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 6 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
| 7 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 8 | In some cases a bit image is little more than a memory dump of video ram . |
| 9 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 10 | It is certainly the case that urban areas such as inner Liverpool would benefit from private sector involvement and a stronger economic base but as Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) point out this is little more than a truism . |
| 11 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 12 | However , at low water , the river is little more than a trickle . |
| 13 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 14 | No British university , in any case , is or ever has been socially exclusive , and the myth of an undergraduate Brideshead of champagne lunches set among gothic quadrangles is little more than an effect of Evelyn Waugh 's selective social recollection . |
| 15 | The increasing use of local area networks , where the PC is little more than an access terminal and important data is stored on a central file server , is also changing buying habits . |
| 16 | There is nothing wrong with this , and in fact soft milk cheese is little more than an extension of junket . |
| 17 | This actually is little more than the theology of Genesis chapter two . |
| 18 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |